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Reading Course, 



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 

1 BUREAU OF EDUCATION. 



READING COURSE FOR KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS. 



Professional advancement and intellectual enrichment for the individual can 
I best be achieved by constant refreshment drawn from great minds, either 
I through personal contact with them or through their writings. A teacher 
! should read at least a dozen good books every year or two in order to renew 
herself mentally and spiritually. 

It frequently happens that upon completing the period of preparation i-e- 
I quired for graduation from a traiJiing school, the kindergarten teacher has 
only just begun to recognize that a wealth of litei'ature is placed at her dis- 
posal, such wealth indeed as to fill her with confusion and hesitation in i-egard 
to the selection of books. 

With a view to providing direction for those teachers who desire it, the 
Bureau of Education, with the cooperation of a committee of the International 
Kindergarten Union, ^ has issued this Reading Course for Kindergarten 
Teachers. 

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. 

1. Those who wish to register for the course should write to the Kindergarten 
Division, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C, giving name, post-office 
address, and a brief statement of their education and experience. 

2. Tlie work is intended as a two-year course, although it may be completed 
in a shorter period if so desired. 

3. Credit will not be given for reading done prior to the date of enrollment. 

4. A Kindergarten Teachers' Reading Course Certilicate, signed by the United 
States Commissioner of Education, will be awarded to those who give satis- 
factory evidence of having read intelligently 1.5 books as indicated in the lists, 
within two years from the time of registering. 

5. As evidence of having intelligently read the books, the reader must notify 
the Bureau of Education at the time each book is begun ; as each book is finished 
the reader mu.st send a summary of the essential features it contains ; and 
when the entire course is completed, the readier must submit answers to a set 
of test questions. 

6. Books may be purchased from local book dealers or publishers, or borrowed 
from local or State libraries. The bureau does not lend books, nor can it place 
orders for them. 

1 MemlxTs of committee : Mrs. Mabel MacKinney Smith, New York, N. Y. ; Miss Alice 
Fitts. Brooklyn. N. Y. ; Miss Elizabetli Woodward, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Miss Catherine 
Watkins, Washington, D. C. ; Miss Mary C. Shiite, Bor<ton, Mass. ; Miss Annie B. Moore, 
New York. N. Y. ; Miss Frances R. Kern, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Miss Marion S. Ilanckel, 
Cumberland, Md. 
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Educational Classics. \)>'^ ""^^ sO^ 




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1. Leonard and Gertrude. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. D. C. Heath & Co., 

New York. $1. 

2. Education of Man. Friedrich Fropbel. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.60. 

3. Levana. Jean Paul Richter. 

(Select any two from above list.) 

Principles and Methods of Education. 

4. Fundamentals of Child Study. Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick. Macmillan Co., 

New York. $1.30. 

5. The Learning Process. Stephen Sheldon Colvin. Macmillan Co., New 

York. $1.25. 

6. Moral Principles in Education. John I>ewey. Houghton Mifflin Co., New 

York. 40 cents. 

7. Changing Conceptions of Education. Ellwood Patterson Cubberly. Hough- 

ton Mifflin Co., New York. 40 cents. 

8. The Play Movement and Its Significance. Henry S. Curtis. Macmillan Co., 

New York. $1.50. 

9. Schools of To-morrow. John Dewey. E. P. Button & Co., New York. $1.60. 

10. Play in Education. Joseph Lee. Macmillan Co., New York. $1.50. 

11. The Montessori Method. Maria Montessori. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New 

York. $2. 

12. The Normal Child and Primary Education. Arnold Lucius Gesell. Ginn 

& Co., New York. $1.48. 

13. A Montessori Mother. Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Henry Holt & Co., New 

York. $1.35. 

14. Play Life in the First Eight Years. Luella A. Palmer. Ginn & Co., New 

York. $1.40. 

15. Literature in the Elementary School. Porter Lander MacClintock. Univer- 

sity of Chicago Press, Chicago, 111. $1. 

(Select any five from above list) 

Sociological Aspects of Education. 

16. Social Organization. Charles Horton Cooley. Charles Scribner's Sons, 

New York. $1.50. 

17. Democracy and Education. John Dewey. Macmillan Co., New York. $1..50. 

18. All the Children of All the People. William Hawley Smith. Macmillan 

Co., New York. $1.10. 

19. A Schoolmaster of the Great City. Angelo Patri. Macmillan Co., New 

York. $1.25. 

(Select any two from above list.) 

Kindergarten Education. 

20. Autobiography. Friedrich Froebel. C W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y. $1.50. 

21. The Kindergarten. Susan Blow, Patty S. Hill, Elizabeth Harrison. Hough- 

ton Mifflin Co., New York. $1.50. 

22. The Kindergarten in American Education. Nina C. Vandewalker. Mac- 

millan Co., New York. $1.25. 

23. Theory and Practice in the Kindergarten. Nora Atwood. Houghton Mifflin 

Co., New York. 75 cents. « 

(Select any two from above list.) 



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Natxjke and Hygiene. 

^4. Nature Study and Life. Clifton F. Hodge. Ginn & Co., New York. $1.60. 

25. Social Life in the Insect World. J. Henri Fabre. The Century Co., New 

York. $3. 

26. The Hygiene of the School Child. Lewis Madison Terman. Houghton 

Mifflin Co., New York. $1.75. 

27. Tlie Care and Feeding of Children. L. Emmett Holt. D. Appieton & Co., 

New York. 85 cents. 

(Select any two from above list.) 

Religious and Mobal Education, 

28. The Training of Children in Religion. George Hodges. D. Appieton & Co., 

New York. $1.75. 

29. Moral Education of Children. Felix Adler. D. Appieton & Co., New York. 

$1.60. 

(Select either one from above list.) 

Appreciation of Child Life. 

80. The Child in the House. Walter Pater. T. B. Mosher. Portland. Me. 

75 cents. 
31. The Golden Age. Kenneth Grahame. John Lane Co., New York. $1.25. 
(Select either one from above list.) 



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